Josep Maria Bartomeu is a good survivor. Locked in his bunker and exhibiting that classic smile with which he usually ventilates any crisis, the president of Barcelona does not intend to give up. Neither wants to advance the elections, scheduled for the summer of 2021, nor intends to resign . As much as the Camp Nou, handkerchief, have two consecutive games claiming his departure. As much as an important sector of its board of directors tried to execute a kind of coup d'etat - yes, without anyone explicitly asking for their resignation - in the disconcerting conclave of February 21. Even after the Barça club disbursed some 900,000 euros for hiring a company, I3 Ventures, linked to fake accounts and in which it charged against multiple objectives, including its own players. A case, by the way, that after the pressure of several board members is being audited by Price Waterhouse, whose conclusions will be announced in the coming days.
Bartomeu, during a lunch this Tuesday at the Equestrian Circle in Barcelona, which was also attended by Emili Rousaud, Barça's institutional vice president and candidate for succession, was overwhelming. His message, beyond the fact that businessmen and journalists were the occasional recipients, had a clear recipient: the rebel sector of his own government. " My term is six years and I plan to finish it. We will conclude it in 2021. It will be then when there are elections. It is a responsibility that we will assume until the last consequences," Bartomeu cried. The leader also insisted that the board will present "a continuing project", a role for Rousaud. Beyond the fact that the founder of Factornergía has been one of the most annoying executives with the management of the last crisis.
The members of the board who intend to leave the president have found a block of granite in Bartomeu . According to article 35.4 of the Barcelona bylaws, only a generalized resignation of its members (more than 75% of the number of executives, not including the president) would precipitate the creation of a management commission that would be responsible for a hypothetical electoral advance.
No date for the referendum by Espai Barça
Bartomeu, yes, admitted the need to convene a referendum to approve the new financing of Espai Barça after the costs skyrocketed, from 600 million euros budgeted to a figure higher than 800 . However, the coronavirus crisis, and according to Bartomeu, makes it difficult to foresee its close celebration before the preference of voting on game day and without restrictions in terms of stadium attendance. Said referendum, beyond approving the pharaonic work of the current Barça government, acquires even more relevance in the face of the plebiscitary character that it would acquire before the social mass.
Bartomeu did not settle his intervention without throwing some darts that did not go unnoticed. First, he warned Eder Sarabia, assistant coach Quique Setién, after those images in the Santiago Bernabéu in which he showed his vehemence to the players: "The forms are not the ones that correspond . " In addition, he was critical of the game of Barcelona, despite regaining the leadership of the League this last day after the suffered victory against Real Sociedad and the fall of Real Madrid at Villamarín. "I am not satisfied. The results are correct, but the improvement has to come," admitted the president, who did not hesitate to use the term "transition" when referring to the present.
A convulsive stage with a tendency to self-destruction from which Bartomeu does not intend to separate.
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